Storm of Magic Review

Storm of Magic, released on the App store on April 24, is a new tower defense game from Russia-based Shamrock Games. Featuring stunning graphics and a wonderful tower defense experience, The ame is a story-driven, mission-based game set on the magical land of Londerol where the player assume the role of a senior magister’s young apprentice.

Storm of Magic is a typical tower defense game, and plays similarly like Plants vs. Zombies. The general principle is to stop the enemies, in this case, a clan consisting of all types of bloodthirsty creatures, from crossing the map and reaching the protected destination.

The main approach to stop the waves of incoming enemies is to set up defense towers. You will have three basic types to choose from: Arrow Tower, Cannon Tower and Fire Tower. Building towers consumes mana points that can be gained from the corpse of the enemies. As the player levels up and moves to advanced scenes, bigger towers will be unlocked and become available. You will feel much pressure to play Storm of Magic, as the enemies grow much stronger and faster than the player could do. Not only will each of them grow tougher and become harder to kill, but they will also come in more waves and larger crowds, and enter the map from different entrances and attack through changeable routes. It seems a little bit too challenging and the game can hardly carry on without in-app purchases after the first few scenes.

Storm of Magic also allows you to slaughter the enemies in a different manner. You will have to use spells to attack enemies as some marked with a shield are immune from tower attacks, and as a magister’s apprentice, the player has a limited number of spells use in each round. The spell could also serve as a quicker way to eliminate regular enemies if some of them managed to breach the towers’ defenses.

There are two game modes: Campaign Mode and Survival Mode. In campaign mode, players will be accomplishing various missions in a selection of scenes across the land of Londerol. In each scene, there are three difficulty levels to challenge and players will be rewarded with different amount of crystals upon completing missions. The survival mode, once unlocked, will provide players with four extra new maps and a much more thrilling and intense gaming experience.

Graphics are exquisite and detailed in Storm of Magic. The landscape illustrated with dynamically changing weather effects, coupled with the amazing soundtrack, creates an intense action atmosphere.

The game provides a built-in store filled with all kinds of supplies that can be purchased with the in-game currency, magic crystals. There are spells, super defence towers, and mana/HP refilling items. It is quite annoying that a prompt frequently pops out and tries to push the players to try their expensive super towers.